Susan Collins’s Maine Money Machine
In Maine, a state with a million and a half residents, Collins is an almost familial figure. “I love her right to death,” Marie, a ship painter with a purple French braid, told me...
Ari Emanuel on Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Mixing Business with Politics
Listen and subscribe: Apple | Spotify | Wherever You ListenSign up for our daily newsletter to get the best of The New Yorker in your inbox.Ari Emanuel is the executive chairman of W.M.E., one...
The Week Republicans Finally Panicked About Trump
Few are flatly predicting yet that Democrats will seize control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives—in the Senate, they would need to flip a net of four seats to win the...
Palestinian President Addresses UN Leaders On Prerecorded Video After Being Denied Visa
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addressed the U.N. General Assembly on Thursday, delivering prerecorded remarks from his office in Ramallah after the United States denied him and other top Palestinian officials visas to attend the...
Australia Says OpenAI Agent Hacked Government Website, Checks For More Breaches
SYDNEY, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Australia said on Thursday an OpenAI agent breached a government health data portal in June, gaining unauthorized access to files, in what could be the first known instance of...
There Is No A.I. “Race”
Recent incidents—including a swarm of OpenAI agents hacking the company Hugging Face—have prompted calls, both from in-the-trenches A.I. researchers and the Anthropic C.E.O., Dario Amodei, for an industry-wide commitment to “pace the frontier,” or...
What China’s Vibe-Coding Capital Can Tell Us About the A.I. Boom
In mid-May, days after Donald Trump visited Beijing, a Chinese tech founder named Levy invited me to an office party for his A.I. fortune-telling company. It’s called FateTell, and it makes an app that,...
At UN, Zelenskyy Urges World Leaders To Impede Russia’s War Efforts
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the world’s leaders Wednesday to keep choking Russia’s revenues and impede its war efforts, telling the U.N. General Assembly that “Russia’s revenues must remain a...
In Defiant Speech, Pezeshkian Calls Out Trump And Says Iran Will Fight ‘Until Our Last Breath’
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been “victims of terrorism” by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at the U.N. General Assembly a day after President...
Russia Pounds Kyiv With Drones Hours Before Zelenskyy’s U.N. Address
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia hammered Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with drones in daylight attacks on Wednesday, hours before Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was due to address world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.Two people...